diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/compositionstep.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/compositionstep.go
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+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+
+	meshwants "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshwants"
+)
+
+// The composition step (design 47 G §22, §354, §63): the assigner takes the seat mesh-wants' accepted kind `step`, the
+// composition step of one module's pipeline that the runner asks, runs it, and says its end as the seat's event
+// step-ended.<node>, the ask's id as the event's id and the event's `id`, which the runner holds the end to.
+
+// stepOutcome is what one composition step came to.
+type stepOutcome struct {
+	Outcome  string
+	Said     string
+	Warnings []string
+}
+
+// compositionSteps takes the composition steps and says their ends.
+type compositionSteps struct {
+	node string
+	// say says one event of the seat mesh-wants (wantsPublisher).
+	say publisher
+	// run runs one step and answers what it came to.
+	run  func(ctx context.Context, id string, run meshwants.StepRun) stepOutcome
+	now  func() time.Time
+	logf func(string, ...any)
+}
+
+// take takes one ask of the accepted kind `step` by its id and body: a step that is no composition step, or an ask with no
+// id, is left with a log line; one taken is run in its own goroutine and its end said.
+func (c *compositionSteps) take(ctx context.Context, id string, data []byte) bool {
+	var run meshwants.StepRun
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &run); err != nil || id == "" || run.Step != meshwants.StepRunStepComposition {
+		c.logf("a step ask that is no composition step with an id is left: %v", err)
+		return false
+	}
+	go c.runOne(ctx, id, run)
+	return true
+}
+
+// runOne runs one step and says its end.
+func (c *compositionSteps) runOne(ctx context.Context, id string, run meshwants.StepRun) {
+	started := c.now().UTC()
+	o := c.run(ctx, id, run)
+	ended := c.now().UTC()
+	end := meshwants.StepEnded{V: 1, ID: id, Pipeline: run.Pipeline, Step: meshwants.StepEndedStepComposition, Module: run.Module,
+		Commit: run.Commit, Fingerprint: run.Fingerprint, Node: c.node, Outcome: o.Outcome, Said: o.Said, Warnings: o.Warnings,
+		Rerun: run.Rerun, By: run.By, Started: &started, Ended: &ended}
+	if err := c.say(meshwants.EventStepEnded+"."+c.node, end, id); err != nil {
+		c.logf("saying the end of the composition step %s: %v", id, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// stepAskID is an ask's id as the asker names it: its event id, else its message id.
+func stepAskID(m *nats.Msg) string {
+	if id := m.Header.Get("x-event-id"); id != "" {
+		return id
+	}
+	return m.Header.Get(nats.MsgIdHdr)
+}
+
+// serveCompositionSteps hears the composition step asks on the seat mesh-wants' accept subject.
+func serveCompositionSteps(ctx context.Context, conn *nats.Conn, c *compositionSteps) error {
+	sub, err := conn.Subscribe(meshwants.AcceptSubjectStep, func(m *nats.Msg) { c.take(ctx, stepAskID(m), m.Data) })
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	go func() { <-ctx.Done(); _ = sub.Drain() }()
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/compositionstep_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/compositionstep_test.go
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+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	meshwants "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshwants"
+)
+
+// saidEvents keeps what a publisher says.
+type saidEvents struct {
+	mu    sync.Mutex
+	said  map[string]any
+	ids   map[string]string
+	heard chan string
+}
+
+func newSaidEvents() *saidEvents {
+	return &saidEvents{said: map[string]any{}, ids: map[string]string{}, heard: make(chan string, 8)}
+}
+
+func (s *saidEvents) say(event string, body any, id string) error {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	s.said[event], s.ids[event] = body, id
+	s.mu.Unlock()
+	s.heard <- event
+	return nil
+}
+
+// AS5 (§22, §354): the assigner takes mesh-wants' accepted kind `step` for the composition step and says the seat's
+// step-ended.<node> with the ask's id, what the step was asked at and what it came to; an ask of another step is left.
+func TestTheCompositionStepIsTakenAndItsEndSaid(t *testing.T) {
+	said := newSaidEvents()
+	at := time.Date(2026, 11, 12, 9, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	var asked meshwants.StepRun
+	c := &compositionSteps{node: "n1", say: said.say, now: func() time.Time { return at }, logf: t.Logf,
+		run: func(_ context.Context, id string, run meshwants.StepRun) stepOutcome {
+			asked = run
+			return stepOutcome{Outcome: meshwants.StepEndedOutcomeFailed, Said: "a and b own /etc/x", Warnings: []string{"n3 asleep"}}
+		}}
+	other, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"pipeline": "main.4.m", "step": "build", "module": "m"})
+	if c.take(context.Background(), "ask-0", other) {
+		t.Fatal("a step ask of another step is taken")
+	}
+	body, _ := json.Marshal(meshwants.StepRun{Pipeline: "main.4.m", Step: meshwants.StepRunStepComposition, Module: "m", Branch: "main",
+		Commit: "c0ffee", Revision: 4, Fingerprint: "fp1", Rerun: true, By: "lead@n1"})
+	if c.take(context.Background(), "", body) {
+		t.Fatal("a step ask with no id is taken")
+	}
+	if !c.take(context.Background(), "ask-1", body) {
+		t.Fatal("the composition step is not taken")
+	}
+	select {
+	case <-said.heard:
+	case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
+		t.Fatal("no step-ended is said")
+	}
+	event := meshwants.EventStepEnded + ".n1"
+	end, ok := said.said[event].(meshwants.StepEnded)
+	if !ok || said.ids[event] != "ask-1" {
+		t.Fatalf("said %v under %v, want step-ended.n1 under the ask's id", said.said, said.ids)
+	}
+	if asked.Module != "m" || end.ID != "ask-1" || end.Pipeline != "main.4.m" || end.Step != meshwants.StepEndedStepComposition ||
+		end.Module != "m" || end.Commit != "c0ffee" || end.Fingerprint != "fp1" || end.Node != "n1" ||
+		end.Outcome != meshwants.StepEndedOutcomeFailed || end.Said != "a and b own /etc/x" || len(end.Warnings) != 1 ||
+		!end.Rerun || end.By != "lead@n1" || end.Started == nil || end.Ended == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("step-ended %+v", end)
+	}
+}